No Kidding...Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s largest maker of personal computers, agreed to buy International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)’s low-end server business for $2.3 billion amid the PC industry’s worst-ever decline.

The server business for the most part is a commodity business, with similar motherboards, processors, memory modules, power supplies and connectivity options. This commoditization will only get more, well, commoditized as new form factors such as One Compute, which calls for even more standardization for fast-growing Web data centers, catches on.